Volvo to provide cars for Didi's self-driving test fleet

Volvo Cars, which is owned by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd , will initially provide Didi with hundreds of vehicles, with the aim of adding more as the self-driving test fleet expands, head of strategy Alexander Petrofski told Reuters.

"For us this is a tremendous opportunity because we gain real-world know-how and get to test our vehicles in a real-world environment," Petrofski said. "This is something we will benefit from when we start rolling out this technology in applications for our customers."Volvo began providing test cars to Uber's autonomous driving unit back in 2016.

The built-in backup systems and safety features on Volvo's XC90 cars, combined with Didi's self-driving system ,will eventually allow the cars to operate without safety drivers in robotaxi services, Volvo said.

Hopefully volvocars tests a large number of cars and has a wide sample pool, in order to ensure maximum safety and caution before releasing these self-driving cars to the general public!! SafetyFirst

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